Monday, December 21, 2015

Joy of Christmas...

Hello everybody! I can't believe we are just 4 days away from Christmas!!! I'm sure the rest of you are all ready with all the gifts wrapped and cards done, right! I know I'm not there yet... with packing and preparing the house to be put on the market, I've fallen a little behind, but I won't let squash my spirit! I think I'm annoying some of my coworkers since most of them are on the count down for the season to be over and the store to go some what back to normal. I call the scrooges when the scowl at me signing along with the Christmas songs! ;-) 

On to my card which of course is what you came by to see!

I stamped the image and sentiment on some watercolor paper. Then using some distress markers and a (re used) wink of stella, I colored it in. (If you are wondering what I mean by reused wink of stella... I filled the barrel with water once the original liquid ran dry.) It does double duty as it leaves tons of shimmer while I watercolor the image! Which you can see better in the image below.


I ran a white panel through my cuttlebug and adhered it to the card base, before adding the colored panel. I felt it needed just a bit more sparkle so I added a few die cut glitter snowflakes.

Be sure to stop by and play along with our challenge over at Die Cut Diva's! We would love to see what you make and you then have a chance to win one of two prizes this month!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish everyone a very happy and safe holiday season!!!
Monica

Linking to:
Twofers Challenge #10- Holiday
Supplies:
Impression Obsession- Small snowflake set
Art Impressions- Joy Penguins

5 comments:

  1. Merry Christmas! Really sweet card, beautifully coloured and the tip about re-using a Wink of Stella is really useful to know, it's given a lovely sparkle to everything. Thanks for joining us at Twofers
    Jane

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  2. Lovely card, fantastic colouring. Just what a Christmas card should be thank you for sharing with us at Twofers. XOXO Zoe

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  3. I love that "reused" Wink of Stella! I can only imagine how sparkly it is in person. Lovely job! Thank you so much for joining us at Twofers & Happy Holidays! Christi

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  4. this is so cute, and love the coloring!

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  5. Congrats - your card won at Twofers! so cute!

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